The Deluge (Manilla Road album)

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The Deluge
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Released1986
StudioMiller Studio, North Newton, Kansas
Genre Heavy metal
Length38:57
Label Black Dragon
Producer Jay Merhoff, Manilla Road, Max Merhoff, Rick Fisher, Sherry Avett
Manilla Road chronology
Open the Gates
(1985)
The Deluge
(1986)
Mystification
(1987)
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The Deluge is the fifth album released by the American heavy metal band Manilla Road. It was originally issued in 1986 and re-released in 2001.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Mark "The Shark" Shelton, except "Morbid Tabernacle", written and performed by Mike Metz.

  1. "Dementia" – 3:09
  2. "Shadow in the Black" – 5:22
  3. "Divine Victim" – 3:09
  4. "Hammer of the Witches" – 2:41
  5. "Morbid Tabernacle" – 1:53
  6. "Isle of the Dead" – 2:53
  7. "Taken by Storm" – 3:19
  8. "The Deluge" – 8:13
  9. "Friction in Mass" – 6:27
  10. "Rest in Pieces" – 1:51

Credits

Band
Production

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